BUYERS of new homes on an estate in Devizes say they are still waiting to move in despite being promised their houses would be ready in February.

John and Jackie Davis reserved their home on the Curo site at Drews Meadow in December and say they were told it would be finished in less than three months.

So they sold their home in Sarum Drive, Devizes, and agreed to move out at the end of February.

Mr Davies said: "We had to go ahead and move out as we didn't want to lose our sale and we thought it would only be for a few weeks. We moved in with my daughter and have been there ever since. It is becoming very frustrating for all of us.

"It has been a nightmare and they are currently five months behind completion."

He has now been promised a move-in date for the end of July but his solicitor has still not received papers to allow the sale to be finalised.

Mr Davis said: "A lot of other people are in the same boat.

"Some people have had to go into rented accommodation. We have asked for compensation but the only help we have received has been with the storage of possessions."

He said the couple had gone to their daughters just with enough clothes for a couple of weeks but now have to keep returning to the storage unit to get different things.

He said: "It was still winter when we moved and now this week it has been boiling hot."

But as yet no homes are complete and the land is still a building site.

Work on the two, three and four bedroom homes started last October. At the time the company said: "The first homes are due for completion early next year."

A spokesman for Curo said this week: "We had hoped that the first new residents at Drew’s Meadow in Devizes would be moving by late spring.

"However unfortunately the long period of wet weather over the winter held up our construction programme and delayed our ability to complete the first phase of new properties. Residents will start moving into their brand new homes in the next few weeks.

"We do of course understand the inconvenience this causes, and have apologised to the affected customers, but issues of this kind are common with new development schemes. This is the reason that we don’t provide a confirmed moving in date until we’re satisfied that the new homes are completed and meet our high standards."